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  <title>MediaGoblin 0.2.0: Our Tubes</title>
  <meta name="date" content="2011-12-12 09:00" />
  <meta name="author" content="Deb Nicholson" />
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<p>Welcome to Our Tubes! The 0.2.0 release enables you to turn on video
and run your own HTML5 video hosting site! Whose tubes? Our Tubes!</p>
   
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.2.0_sintel_trailer.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.2.0_sintel_trailer-scaled.png"
           alt="Sintel trailer!" /></a>
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<p>Below is an example video that's been transcoded and uploaded using
MediaGoblin. The magic comes from
<a href="http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/">GStreamer!</a></p>
    
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  <video class="video-js vjs-default-skin"
         width="640"
         height="360"
         controls="controls"
         preload="auto"
         data-setup="">
    <source src="/videos/sintel_trailer-mediagoblin_transcoded-640p.webm" 
            type="video/webm; codecs=&quot;vp8, vorbis&quot;" />
  </video><br />
  <i><a href="http://sintel.org">Sintel</a>,
    by the
    <a href="http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/">Blender Foundation</a>,
    <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC BY 3.0</a>.</i>
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<p>Our video hosting is html5 standards compliant!  That means you
need a standards-compliant browser like a
recent <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a>
or <a href="http://www.chromium.org/Home">Chromium</a> to see
video. (If you aren't seeing anything, go upgrade your browser.)
Video is resource intensive and requires extra dependencies like
GStreamer so it's disabled by default. If you want to run a video
hosting site for your friends and family, now you can!  To enable
video hosting on your
site, <a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/media-types.html#video">check
out these docs</a>.</p>

<p>MediaGoblin's big picture goal is to support loads of different
media types, so video is just the beginning. In the near future
MediaGoblin will be able host slide sharing, three dimensional model
uploading and viewing, even ascii art. You can already
<a href="https://github.com/jwandborg/mediagoblin/tree/ascii-media-type">check out this
experimental branch and showcase your rad ascii art</a>.</p>
     
<p>What else? This month we fixed it so that when you resize an uploaded
image, it retains the same file format. PNG images are still PNG
images and GIFs are still GIFs. This is particularly good news for
fans of semi-transparent PNGs. There were also some small styling
improvements this month, including better navigation. Take a look:</p>
 
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  <a href="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.2.0_cat_spider_transparent.png"
     ><img src="/blog_images/mediagoblin_0.2.0_cat_spider_transparent-scaled.png"
           alt="Cat and Spider drawing, with transparent background" /></a>
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<p>With our MediaGoblin instance hosters in mind, we made it a little
easier to customize stuff and we also
<a href="http://docs.mediagoblin.org/production-deployments.html">improved
the documentation for larger volume instances, especially video
hosters</a>.</p>

<p>Thank you to everyone who helped with Our Tubes! We had some new
folks join the project this month (Yay!!) and there was lots of great
work and support from our returning contributors. We're especially
grateful to the people who stepped up to review each other's code this
month. Best. Team. EVER. Seriously!  Give a round of applause to:
Aaron Williamson, Christopher Allan Webber, Corey Farwell, Deborah
Nicholson, Elrond of Samba TNG, Jakob Kramer, Jef van Schendel, Joar
Wandborg, Larisa Hoffenbecker, Manuel Urbano Santos, Nathan Yergler,
Pablo J. Urbano Santos, Sam Kleinman, Will Kahn-Greene, Pierre
Geoffroy, Harry Chen, George Pop, Aleksej Serdjukov, osc
(transifex.net), and martin (transifex.net).  Thanks folks... we
couldn't have done it without you.  (PS: It's possible we missed you;
if so let us know and we'll correct this post.)</p>

<p>What next? More media types! And we've got a roadmap for federation
now. Look out uncharted territory of decentralized web, we're coming!
In fact, enough new stuff is on the horizon at MediaGoblin to warrant
its own whole post. Be sure to check back in with us soon. Or if you
like spoilers, come
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html#irc">see us in IRC</a>
(#mediagoblin on irc.freenode.net) and see who you can shake
down for hints of what's coming next. Better yet, infiltrate us and
find out
<a href="http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html">from the inside</a>.
There's a ton to do and we would love your help!</p>
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